COLOMBO, Sri Lanka—A rights group gathering evidence on Sri Lanka’s alleged rights abuses said it filed a criminal complaint with Singapore’s Attorney General, seeking to arrest an ex-Sri Lankan president for his role in what they say are alleged war crimes during the island nation’s civil war that ended more than a decade ago.
Lawyers from the International Truth and Justice Project—an organization administered by a South Africa-based nonprofit foundation—filed the complaint, requesting the immediate arrest of ex-Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa for his role as the secretary of defense during Sri Lanka’s civil war, which ended in 2009, the group said in a release on Sunday….